From Murray’s Desk Kia ora koutou Firstly, a big “thank you” to all of you who have taken time out of your busy lives to provide articles for this publication. It is fantastic to have contributions from organisations and individuals to learn of ways to make our communities safer and better places to work and live in. Hopefully, you will find that these stories are good to share and that we can all learn or laugh from them. And now a question for you… What happens when a troublesome issue happens in our street or neighbourhood? Be it noisy parties, rubbish dumped on the road, graffiti (heaven forbid if it’s on our front fence), an abandoned car, leaking fire hydrants or speeding motorists.
We usually have a grumble, may even talk to the neighbours and have a grumble with them then the conversation often turns to “what are they doing about this?”(They, being the Police, council, power supplier, etc). Perhaps “they” don’t know about the issue, in that case it is still our problem. How about we turn the question round to “what could I/we do about this?” In most cases we, as residents, can do something about the issue. On a recent Sunday morning I was walking our dogs along a stop bank and came across a pile of recently dumped rubbish (it wasn’t there on Saturday). I took a photo of the rubbish and using the Snap Send Solve app, which worked out the location, I sent the information to the local council.
The easy way to report local issues. Snap Send Solve makes reporting community issues in New Zealand simple. Your reports are instantly sent to the responsible authority. No need to wait on the phone or write long emails.
Use the Snap Send Solve app and become a Community Legend today! Page 9
